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jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 10:37 pm Post subject: Interesting blog
https://britishfamily.co.uk/british-suppliers/wpbdm-category/british_food/ A family trying to buy only British products for a year. They don't seem to have many suppliers yet.....

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 10:43 pm Post subject:
It makes me realise that we are actually an odd lot on downsizer and what we understand about food and lots of other aspects of life is far more than a quite a lot of other (normal?) people. It's a pity, I want us to be the norm.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35089
Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 10:46 pm Post subject:
Indeed. I hope they make a go of it. I'm sure it will be a learning curve and maybe if it's publicised will help others.

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4640
Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 10:49 pm Post subject:
Interesting...but not the mindset I would have (do have?) about it? We'll see

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35089
Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 11:00 pm Post subject:

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:

Interesting...but not the mindset I would have (do have?) about it? We'll see

I think that's what makes it interesting.

john of wessex

Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Posts: 2130

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 13 6:43 am Post subject:
What if they want to buy a new car................... My ex & I had an old shape Vauxhall Agila, it was like the UN under the bonnet!

cir3ngirl

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 4846
Location: Cirencester

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 13 7:03 am Post subject:
On news yesterday morning husband was trying to make a radio just incase their current one breaks then he might try making a mobile phone.

Went

Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 13 8:20 am Post subject:
Great publicity for their new book - probably (old cynic that I am)

bodrighy

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
Posts: 2159
Location: Near Devizes

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 13 8:38 am Post subject:
Not a good time to try it either. We are surrounded by market gardens but in the farmers market where they sell half their produce is imported as the crops have failed due to flooding. Pete

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 13 10:28 am Post subject:

Gawber wrote:

Great publicity for their new book - probably (old cynic that I am)

That's what I thought. There's another woman earning her living dribbling on about not buying stuff for her child for a year.

I'm wondering if there's a market for my fascinating experience of not buying things because I haven't got any money to spare?

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 13 10:45 am Post subject:
Don't see why not actually. I'd be more likely to buy it than stuff written by people who have a comfortable fall-back position. Of course if you sold enough copies you'd have money and I'm not sure that a sequel about how you spent it would work.

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4640
Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 13 12:14 pm Post subject:
A news report last night gave me a similar feeling - it was about lack of mortgages (or rather, high deposits) affecting buyers, builders etc etc. The potential first time buyer they spoke to "wanted to live a life, y'know, holidays and days out and stuff" instead of making sacrifices to save up. Call me an old fart, but saving up is hard for a reason??

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 13 12:42 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Don't see why not actually. I'd be more likely to buy it than stuff written by people who have a comfortable fall-back position. Of course if you sold enough copies you'd have money and I'm not sure that a sequel about how you spent it would work.

Somebody once told me that I'd managed to make Milton Keynes sound interesting, so maybe I do have the potential to make not buying things sound interesting too

Annemieke

Joined: 26 Feb 2013
Posts: 131
Location: Somerset UK

Posted: Fri Mar 15, 13 7:58 pm Post subject:
All we own and wear comes from charity shops but I'm afraid I can't do without my 'naturally sweetened' Billy's biscuits from Holland ....

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